Stride was created to fill the gap between clinical care and the real, complex lives families are navigating every day.
Stride Denver was founded from a shared conviction that mental health care should be deeply personal, clinically excellent, and built around the whole family. Meg and Paul created Stride with a vision for something different: a practice rooted in genuine collaboration and deep care, where clinicians think creatively, confidently, compassionately, and collaboratively in the face of complex needs.
Their partnership started long before Stride, at the University of Virginia. Meg was running a nonprofit crisis hotline, while Paul designed and built the system that powered it. It was an early glimpse of what would define them: Meg’s vision for how care should feel, and Paul’s ability to help make that vision a reality.
Stride was born from Meg’s experience in high-acuity mental health settings, from youth crisis work to traumatic brain injury care at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Again and again, she saw clients and families stuck in a revolving door of crisis, hospitalization, and uncertainty, with little sustained guidance through overwhelming systems.
What was missing was sophisticated, relational support. Someone who could think clinically while also helping families navigate long-term planning, family dynamics, and the broader structure needed to truly move forward. Meg’s experience gave her a comfort with complexity and a conviction that behind every diagnosis is a human story deserving of deeply personal care.
As Stride took shape, something became clear: the approach was resonating. Families were looking for something more individualized, more thoughtful, and more integrated than what traditionally existed. Stride began building a clinical team to carefully extend the same philosophy to more families. The clinical vision, services, and systems that supported them continued to evolve to responsibly support growth and maintain the highest standard of care.
Today, Stride’s clinicians are supported by a dedicated leadership team that prioritizes staff wellbeing as a core operational principle. This provides the foundation for every clinician at Stride to do their best work, considering the whole family system, collaborating across disciplines, and staying grounded in compassion and clarity.
These values are the standard we hold ourselves to when making every decision at Stride.
We hire clinicians who demonstrate creativity under pressure, collaborate effectively, lead with compassion, and carry the confidence to navigate uncertainty.
We choose partners and providers who share that same commitment and high ethical standard. We collaborate with professionals who put the client and family first.
We work best with families who are ready to engage openly in the process, trusting that meaningful change takes time, honesty, and a willingness to do things differently.
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